I have always wondered this about Noah's ark..?

Question

So, did God only talk to Noah and not any one else..? I thinking in the bible it said that he only talk to Noah cause Noah was a good man and all that..

So did he warn anyone else what he was going to do.?

When it started to rain what did everyone think that was not around Noah and his ark to hear what Noah had heard from God.? How about people thousands of mile away..?

For sake of an arguement lets believe...

It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. So it could cover the earth. What were the other people thinking on say 15.? Or day 20..

Did they try to go to higher ground or did no one else have a boat and try to stay aflout for awhile..?

Answer 1

The bible also states that before the flood, there was no rain. So imagine you are one of the people watching noah build an ark for 120 years, claiming a flood was coming and that it was going to rain. Wouldn't you have done everything you could to get into the Ark as soon as the first drop started.

Noah must have put the axes on the ark to stop scared humans from hacking in.

I wonder why God cared more for rats than baby humans?

Answer 2

You'll have to read the story carefully, and then read other Bible verses touching on the subject to get a better picture.

1. As you noted, Noah was chosen by God because of his faithfulness. But the fact that his wife, sons and their wives worked together with Noah shows that they had a measure of faith too.

2. The other people WERE warned about the impending flood. They CHOSE not to join in with Noah

2 Peter 2:5- "and he did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a PREACHER of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people.

Matthew 24:37-39- "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.  For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark;  and THEY TOOK NO NOTE until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be."

Noah did not build the ark in a week, it took many years. All that time he warned his neighbours. No one had ever seen such a big boat, so there was no way anyone could say that they did not even HEAR about it through the grapevine.

Well, you can put yourself in their shoes, if you were outside that ark when it started to rain, and Jehovah had already shut the door (no one can open a door that the Almighty Himself has shut)- of course they had regrets!

The account of Noah's ark does not only make interesting history; it serves as a warning to those who do not heed the warning in our day. As Jesus said "For just as the days of Noah were....."

Answer 3

God only talked to Noah about the flood to make a boat. He put two of every animal, male and femal, on the boat so hey would not go extenct. If it does not say in the Bible what people were thinking, then we will never know. I pretty sure that they did not believe him at first but they soon find out they should of.
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Answer 4

Noah preached verbally and by building the Ark for hundreds of years. Noah's preaching was like water off a duck's back. The earth was exceedingly wicked. that is why God wiped everyone out in the flood!

Answer 5

By the way in 4 days is the next "birthday" of the grat flood year 2370 B.C.E the 17 day of the second month according to the bible the first one is Tishri.


Heb., No'ach, probably, Rest; Consolation]. Son of Lamech and tenth in line from Adam through Seth; born in 2970 B.C.E., 126 years after Adam’s death. When his father Lamech named Noah, he said: “This one will bring us comfort from our work and from the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah has cursed.”—Ge 5:28-31.
Faultless Among His Contemporaries. The world in which Noah lived had become degenerate. During this period angels who left their original position and proper dwelling place had married women and produced offspring, “men of fame,” whipping up the violence filling the earth (Ge 6:1-4; Jude 6), until “every inclination of the thoughts of [man’s] heart was only bad all the time” and the earth became “ruined, because all flesh had ruined its way on the earth.” (Ge 6:5, 11, 12) But Noah avoided this corruption and is described by God’s Word as “a righteous man. He proved himself faultless among his contemporaries. Noah walked with the true God.” (Ge 6:8, 9) Noah could be spoken of as “faultless” because, unlike that ungodly world, he measured up fully to what God required of him.—Compare Ge 6:22; see PERFECTION.
Jehovah Purposes to Destroy That World. Jehovah set a time limit for the existence of that ungodly world, saying: “My spirit shall not act toward man indefinitely in that he is also flesh. Accordingly his days shall amount to a hundred and twenty years.” (Ge 6:3) Evidently these words were spoken to Noah. About 20 years after that, Noah’s first son (probably Japheth) was born (2470 B.C.E.), and the record shows that another son, Shem, was born two years later. The time of Ham’s birth is not stated, but these three sons were grown and married when the divine instructions were given to Noah to build an ark. Consequently, it is likely that only 40 or 50 years then remained before the Deluge. (Ge 6:13-18) Now, brought into a covenant with Jehovah (Ge 6:18) and assisted by his family, Noah set to work as a builder and “a preacher of righteousness,” warning that wicked generation of impending destruction.—2Pe 2:5.
Preservation Through the Flood. The people did not believe that God would act to destroy a world of wickedness. So it was because Noah possessed strong faith that he, in implicit obedience, did “according to all that God had commanded him. He did just so.” (Ge 6:22) It was because of his unswerving faith in Jehovah that the Christian writer of the book of Hebrews included him in that “so great a cloud of witnesses.” He wrote: “By faith Noah, after being given divine warning of things not yet beheld, showed godly fear and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; and through this faith he condemned the world, and he became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.”—Heb 11:7; 12:1.
Seven days before the floodwaters began to fall, Jehovah instructed Noah to gather the animals into the ark. On the seventh day of that week, “Noah went in, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark ahead of the waters of the deluge. . . . After that Jehovah shut the door behind him.” On that very day “the flood arrived and destroyed them all.”—Ge 7:1-16; Lu 17:27.
With the ark’s occupants was preserved the thread of human and animal life. Also, true worship survived, and by means of Noah and his family God carried through the history of creation, along with a system of counting time back to man’s creation and the original language (later called Hebrew). Noah kept an accurate log of important events during his stay in the ark.—Ge 7:11, 12, 24; 8:2-6, 10, 12-14.

Answer 6

You do understand it is not a true story?